1. Bruce Springsteen – Tracks 2 2. The Who – Live at the Oval 1971 3. The Beatles – Anthology 4 4. Bob Dylan – Through an Open Window 5. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska 6. Patti Smith – Horses 7. […]

1. Robert Plant – Saving Grace 2. Jason Isbell – Foxes in the Snow 3. Paul Weller – Find Eldorado 4. Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World 5. Thea Gilmore – These Quiet Friends 6. Rodney Crowell – Airline […]

A few from my collection: Bruce Springsteen – The Ties that Bind The Life and Times of Richard Thompson Lloyd Cole – In New York Graham Parker – These Dreams Will Never Sleep Anthology Of American Folk Music

‘Emotions’ from Love’s first album. And a couple from R.E.M. – ‘Zither’ from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and ‘New Orleans Instrumental No 1’ from Automatic for the People. (I still haven’t mastered posting links yet!)

I’m not particularly familiar with Pere Ubu, but David Thomas made some fine contributions to some of Jackie Leven’s albums. Their version of ‘You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling’ is just sublime!

As well as the bonus track issue on CDs, there was also the curse of the ‘hidden’ track which was all the rage at one point. The excellent Jarvis Coocker album had a hidden track which appeared after nearly half […]

One of my all time favourite concerts was seeing her perform in front of Saisbury Cathedral as the sun went down. Unforgettable. Probably about 20 years ago now.

A Week in September is just lovely!

1. Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings 2. Bryan Ferry – Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 3. Elvis Costello – King of America and Other Realms 4. Faces – Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert & […]

1. Mark Knopfler – One Deep River 2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God 3. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings -Woodland 4. T Bone Burnett – The Other Side 5. The Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe? 6. […]

Only a pathetic three so far this year: PP Arnold at Thornden Hall, Chandlers Ford ( a new venue for me) Bob Dylan at Bournemouth International Centre Patti Smith at St Paul’s Cathedral and from the end of […]

Absolutely no need to apologise! It wasn’t a criticism – and the lack of a comma is right there on the label!

That last suggestion is a good example of why punctuation matters. Should it be ‘Please don’t go, topless mother’ or ‘Please don’t go topless, mother’?

A few more that I still use: I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more You Plonker Lovely jubbly Stupid Boy Don’t Panic